233 pages : 26 cm

Based on an archive of interviews, ephemera and archive copies of tapes and installations from the pioneering period of British video art, this anthology brings together some of the leading scholars in the field, backed by an expert panel, to lay the groundwork for a history of the people, activities, institutions and interventions that made of video art the one true avant-garde in the United Kingdom in the 20th century

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index

Foreword : Artists' video is blessed and cursed by its technology / Brian Winston -- Video : resisting definition / Jackie Hatfield -- Video as an art : looking into the rewind archive through the philosophical aesthetics of Richard Wollheim / Grahame Weinbren -- Video between television and art : interventions into programme flow and standard formats by British video artists / Yvonne Spielmann -- Artists' television : interruptions-interventions / Stephen Partirdge -- Decay behind a glass monitor : the prophetic deterioration of early video installation / Emile Shemilt -- Liveness, performance and the permanent frame / Mike Leggett -- Vide verso : video's critical corpus / Malcolm Dickson -- On the reinvention of video in the 1980s / Sean Cubitt -- A brief history of video : time and base / Adam Lockhart

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